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Tamura grew sales to ¥123.56bn, but still fell to a ¥1.39bn loss

Sales climbed to ¥123.56bn in the year to March, while ordinary income only edged down to ¥4.88bn from ¥5.06bn. Even so, profit attributable to owners of parent swung to a ¥1.39bn loss from a ¥2.78bn profit, and the filing summary does not say what pushed the final line over.

Jun 24, 20262 min read
Illustration of electronic components moving along a factory line with rising sales bars and a falling profit curve.

Tamura managed to grow consolidated sales to ¥123.56bn in the year to March 2026, but the gain did not reach the bottom line. Profit attributable to owners of the parent swung to a ¥1.39bn loss from a ¥2.78bn profit a year earlier, while ordinary income slipped only slightly, to ¥4.88bn from ¥5.06bn.

That mismatch is what makes the numbers notable. In the five-year summary carried in the annual report, revenue rose from ¥88.33bn in the year to March 2022 to ¥123.56bn this year, yet the latest period broke a run of positive parent profit. Basic earnings per share moved from ¥34.03 to a ¥17.29 loss per share.

Five-year snapshot
Consolidated summary figures from Tamura's annual securities report.
MetricYear to Mar 2022Year to Mar 2023Year to Mar 2024Year to Mar 2025Year to Mar 2026
Net sales¥88.33bn¥107.99bn¥106.62bn¥114.05bn¥123.56bn
Ordinary income¥2.00bn¥4.33bn¥4.96bn¥5.06bn¥4.88bn
Profit attributable to owners of parent-¥84.0mn¥2.05bn¥2.24bn¥2.78bn-¥1.39bn
Basic EPS-¥1.02¥25.01¥27.42¥34.03-¥17.29

Ordinary income, in other words, did not collapse in the way the parent profit line did. The report shows ¥4.96bn of ordinary income in the year to March 2024, ¥5.06bn a year later and ¥4.88bn in the latest year, while comprehensive income fell to ¥1.09bn from ¥6.65bn. The balance sheet shifted less dramatically: total assets rose to ¥132.38bn, net assets eased to ¥62.90bn from ¥64.03bn, cash and cash equivalents fell to ¥18.10bn from ¥19.48bn, and the equity ratio slipped to 47.40% from 51.32%. What the excerpted summary does not do is explain the swing to loss, so readers can see the scale of the deterioration but not, from this summary alone, which item pushed net profit below zero.

A separate internal control report filed the same day disclosed no additional reporting-controls problem. Tamura said its financial-reporting controls were effective as of March 31, after assessing the parent, 21 consolidated subsidiaries and one equity-method affiliate. It focused detailed process testing on 11 significant business locations representing about two-thirds of consolidated sales, and added tax and tax-effect processes to the review. So the filings leave investors with a precise, if awkward, picture: sales kept rising, the bottom line did not, and the accompanying controls disclosure says the reporting framework itself was functioning effectively.